ABSTRACT
For as long as we have been studying behavior in organizations, scholars have been interested in qualities, characteristics, and behaviors of individuals that contribute to their personal influence and effectiveness. Personal reputation is a construct that appears to incorporate such factors of individuals at work, and it seems worthy of serious scholarly attention by organizational scientists. Interestingly, and quite unfortunately, the notion of reputation has been virtually ignored as an individual-level focus of scientific inquiry and as a possible determinant of individual effectiveness in the management literature. However, we find that reputation has been studied for many years in other scientific disciplines and areas of scientific inquiry, but those literatures have remained reasonably parallel to one another, thus preventing integration and the building of a more extensive knowledge base.
